This series attempts to add support for software nodes to gpiolib, using software node references. This allows us to convert more drivers to the generic device properties and drop support for custom platform data. To describe a GPIO via software nodes we can create the following data items: /* Node representing the GPIO controller/GPIO bank */ static const struct software_node gpio_bank_b_node = { .name = "B", }; /* * Properties that will be assigned to a software node assigned to * the device that used platform data. */ static const struct property_entry simone_key_enter_props[] = { PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("linux,code", KEY_ENTER), PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("label", "enter"), PROPERTY_ENTRY_REF("gpios", &gpio_bank_b_node, 123, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW), { } }; The code in gpiolib handling software nodes uses the name in the software node representing GPIO controller to locate the actual instance of GPIO controller. To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Changes in v4: - Rebased on top of next-20221111 - Added Andy's reviewed-by for patch #6 - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221031-gpiolib-swnode-v3-0-0282162b0fa4@xxxxxxxxx Changes in v3: - Addressed more Andy's comments - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221031-gpiolib-swnode-v2-0-81f55af5fa0e@xxxxxxxxx Changes in v2: - reworked the series to be independent of other in-flight patches. That meant keeping devm_gpiod_get_from_of_node() for now. - removed handling of secondary nodes, it deserves a separate patch series - fixed refcounting when handling swnodes (Andy) - added include/linux/gpio/property.h with PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO (Andy) - addressed most of the rest of Andy's comments - collected reviewed-by and acked-by - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221031-gpiolib-swnode-v1-0-a0ab48d229c7@xxxxxxxxx --- Dmitry Torokhov (6): gpiolib: of: change of_find_gpio() to accept device node gpiolib: acpi: change acpi_find_gpio() to accept firmware node gpiolib: acpi: teach acpi_find_gpio() to handle data-only nodes gpiolib: acpi: avoid leaking ACPI details into upper gpiolib layers gpiolib: consolidate GPIO lookups gpiolib: add support for software nodes drivers/gpio/Makefile | 1 + drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c | 132 +++++++++++++++----------- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.h | 54 +---------- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 7 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.h | 4 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-swnode.c | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpio/gpiolib-swnode.h | 14 +++ drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 209 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------- include/linux/gpio/property.h | 11 +++ 9 files changed, 315 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-) --- base-commit: f8f60f322f0640c8edda2942ca5f84b7a27c417a change-id: 20221031-gpiolib-swnode-948203f49b23 -- Dmitry